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 Encoded by Lynette Stoudt, June 2011 Description is in English Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard Collection Summary MS 1361-MP Georgia Historical Society collection of maps 1500s-1987 734 maps (23.50 cubic feet) Georgia Historical Society Collection materials are in English Georgia Historical Society,
Savannah, Georgia, 31401
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Collection is open for research. Negatives are restricted from patron use.

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Copyright has not been assigned to the Georgia Historical Society. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Division of Library and Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Georgia Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

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[Identification of item], Georgia Historical Society collection of maps, MS 1361-MP [number], Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia.

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Charles Ellis and Elizabeth Stewart Waring papers, MS 1018

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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Chatham County (Ga.)--Maps. Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps. Georgia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Maps. Georgia--Maps. Savannah (Ga.)--Maps. Southern States--Maps. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Maps. Maps. Navigation charts. Organizational Information

The Georgia Historical Society was founded by Richard D. Arnold, William Bacon Stevens, and Israel K. Tefft, all Savannah residents. It was chartered in 1839 by the Georgia General Assembly. The headquarters of the Georgia Historical Society is located in Savannah.

 Scope and Content Note

This is an artificial collection created by the Georgia Historical Society by compiling maps, some from other manuscript collections, into a single collection. It is unknown when this collection was created, but most of the materials were processed during the 1980s. The maps concern Savannah, Chatham County, and other cities and counties in Georgia; other Southern States; North America; the United States; and Europe. Also included are navigation maps, Civil War maps, Revolutionary War maps, Railroad maps, and maps of Cherokee and Creek territories.

The collection is organized into thirteen series: 1. Savannah; 2. Chatham County- General; 3. Chatham County - Tracts; 4. Georgia - General; 5. Georgia - Cities/Counties/Other locations; 6. Southern States; 7. United States; 8. North America; 9. Europe; 10. Navigation maps; 11. Revolutionary War; 12. Civil War; and 13. Miscellaneous.

All maps in this collection are also individually cataloged in the Georgia Historical Society’s online catalog. Map cataloging was funded by a 2009-2011 Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant.

This collection includes a box of negatives which are restricted from patron use.

 Collection Inventory Series 1: Savannah, 1734-1971, undated.

This series contains maps of Savannah, Georgia, and the vicinity. Maps include property, public roads, industrial locations, street car routes, emergency vehicle routes, Hunter Air Force Base, terminal facilities, Savannah's wards, subdivisions, Fort Greene, Trustee's Garden, Yellow Fever epidemic of 1876, and electric company lines.

Contact the Georgia Historical Society Library for an inventory of maps in this series, or search the Georgia Historical Society's online catalog.

 Series 2: Chatham County - General, circa 1741-1971, undated.

This series contains maps of Chatham County, Georgia. Maps include property, public roads, water and sewerage service, and a soil map.

Contact the Georgia Historical Society Library for an inventory of maps in this series, or search the Georgia Historical Society's online catalog.

 Series 3: Chatham County - Tracts, 1740-1982, undated.

This series contains maps of property located in Chatham County, Georgia. Maps include named land tracts, public roads, an automobile road course, cemeteries, plantations, forts, and islands.

Contact the Georgia Historical Society Library for an inventory of maps in this series, or search the Georgia Historical Society's online catalog.

 Series 4: Georgia - General, circa 1660-1969, undated.

This series contains maps of the state of Georgia. Some maps show portions of the surrounding states South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, and Tennessee. Maps include early roads and later highway systems, missions, Oglethorpe's travels, railroads, channels, senatorial districts, militia districts, state parks, representative districts, coasts, rivers, and inlets.

Contact the Georgia Historical Society Library for an inventory of maps in this series, or search the Georgia Historical Society's online catalog.

 Series 5: Georgia - Cities/Counties/Other locations, 1747-1987, undated.

This series contains maps of various townships, cities, counties, and islands within Georgia. Maps include property, public road and highways, soil map, cemeteries, plantations, and islands.

Contact the Georgia Historical Society Library for an inventory of maps in this series, or search the Georgia Historical Society's online catalog.

 Series 6: Southern States, 1500s-1970, undated.

This series contains maps of the North Carolina South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Virginia, and Tennessee. Maps include coastal areas, railroad lines, highway systems, and townships, cities, and counties in southern states other than Georgia.

Contact the Georgia Historical Society Library for an inventory of maps in this series, or search the Georgia Historical Society's online catalog.

 Series 7: United States, 1733-1953.

This series contains maps of the United States and territories.

Contact the Georgia Historical Society Library for an inventory of maps in this series, or search the Georgia Historical Society's online catalog.

 Series 8: North America, 1529-1932.

This series contains maps of North America including the West Indies. Maps include British and French settlements.

Contact the Georgia Historical Society Library for an inventory of maps in this series, or search the Georgia Historical Society's online catalog.

 Series 9: Europe, 1724-1955, undated.

This series contains maps of London, England, and Brittany, France. Also included is a United States Army World War II era map of Europe.

Contact the Georgia Historical Society Library for an inventory of maps in this series, or search the Georgia Historical Society's online catalog.

 Series 10: Navigation Maps, 1670-1979, undated.

This series contains maps of Eastern waterways, primarily in Georgia.

Contact the Georgia Historical Society Library for an inventory of maps in this series, or search the Georgia Historical Society's online catalog.

 Series 11: Revolutionary War, 1775-1931, undated.

This series contains maps related to battles, locations of interest, and events that took place during the Revolutionary War.

Contact the Georgia Historical Society Library for an inventory of maps in this series, or search the Georgia Historical Society's online catalog.

 Series 12: Civil War, 1861-1938, undated.

This series contains twenty-five maps related to battles, locations of interest, and events that took place during the United States Civil War.

 The army map of Georgia. Boston, MA: L. Prang and Co. 159 Washington St., 1864. MS 1361-MP 545 1 map; paper mounted on fabric. 84 x 56 cm. on sheet 95 x 62 cm. 1:800000. The Battle of Manassas plain. Tennessee: [s.n.], 1860s. MS 1361-MP 567 1 map; newspaper clipping. 33 x 24 cm. Central Virginia : showing Lieut. Gen'l. U.S. Grant's campaign and marches of the armies under his command in 1864-5 / prepared by order of the Secretary of War for the officers of the U.S. Army under the command of Lieut. Gen. U.S. Grant. Washington, D.C.?: War Dept. Engineer Bureau, between 1864 and 1869. MS 1361-MP 559 1 map; color. 79 x 79 cm. on sheet 86 x 86 cm. 1:350,000. Chattanooga and its approaches / compiled in Topl. Engr. Office, Hd. Qrs. Army Cumbd., Maj. Gen. Wm. S. Rosecrans, Comdg., Maj. Gen. Geo. H. Thomas, Comdg. by Wm. E. Merrill[S.I.]: Topl. Engr. Office, Army of the Cumbd., 1864. MS 1361-MP 320 1 map on 12 sheets. 25 x 27 cm. enclosure 1:126720. Civil War campaign map used by General Lafayette McLaws to illustrate a lecture delivered before the Georgia Historical Society, circa 1885. MS 1361-MP 319 1 map; hand-drawn, painted on muslin. 134 x 143 cm. Confederate line of battle on Mine Run with routes of opposing armies, Nov. 26th to Dec. 3rd, 1863 / made by order of Lt. Col. Wm Proctor Smith, Chief Engr. A.N.VA., by S. Howell Brown, 1st Lt. Eng. T., January 15, 1864. MS 1361-MP 317 1 map; color, hand-drawn. 29 x 33cm. on sheet 34 x 37 cm. 1:79200. The fall of Fort Pulaski: approaches to Savannah. New York: New York Tribune, 1862. MS 1361-MP 609 1 map; photocopy. 19 x 30 cm. on sheet 24 x 33 cm. 1:117,000. The harbor, fortifications, and city of Charleston. New York: New-York Tribune, 1863. MS 1361-MP 366 1 map. 36 x 43 cm. on sheet 40 x 54 cm. 1:31680. Map illustrating the defence of Savannah, Ga., and the operations resulting in its capture by the army commanded by Maj. Genl. W.T. Sherman, Dec. 21st, 1864 / compiled 1880-81 under the direction of Bvt. Brig. Genl. O.M Poe, Maj. Corps. of Engs., Col. A.D.C. late Chief Engineer Military Division of the Mississippi. New York: Am. Photo-litho. Co., 1881? MS 1361-MP 460 1 map; color. 63 x 74 cm. on sheet 74 x 85 cm. 1:85,000. A map of a part of Murray County, Georgia: north of Mill Creek, south of Sumach, east of the Connasuaga River and west of the Federal Road / compiled under the direction of Capt. W. E. Merrill, chief topl. engr. by Sergt. N. Finegan draughtsman, from the notes of a captured rebel engineer. Chattanooga, TN: Topog. Engr. Office, 1864. MS 1361-MP 169 1 map; on muslin. 51 x 34 cm. on sheet 54 x 36 cm. 1:31680.

Signed, "With respects of O. M. Poe Capt. Engrs., Chf. Eng. M.D.M."

 Map of Atlanta as of 1938 : showing the field and fortified lines of the confederate forces, together with those of the federal armies - also, the fields of the three major engagements during the summer of 1864 by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Atlanta, GA: Ivan Allen-Marshall Co., 1938. MS 1361-MP 519 1 map. 48 x 42 cm. on sheet 53 x 45 cm. 1:42,000. Map of Fredericksburg battlefield, December 13, 1862 / by S.H. Brown, Topl. Engr. 2nd Corps A.N.Va., circa 1864. MS 1361-MP 316 1 map; color, pen-and-ink and crayon on paper mounted on cloth. 27 x 39 cm. on sheet 29 x 41 cm.

The creator of the map, Samuel Howell Brown, was a Confederate topographical engineer assigned to the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia (CSA) under Jedediah Hotchkiss during the United States Civil War. He held rank of 1st Lt. and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox as a member of the Co. I, First Regiment, Confederate Engineers.

 Map of northern Georgia / made under the direction of Capt. W.E. Merrill, Chief Topl. Engr. from the Cherokee lands maps and from information compiled by N. Finegan, draughtsman, from surveys of the Top. Engr., Army of the Cumbd. compiled by H. Riemann, draughtsman, and from the state map of Georgia. Chattanooga, TN: Lith. and printed at Top. Eng. Office Dept. Cumbd., 1864. MS 1361-MP 087 1 map on 24 sheets; hand colored, mounted on cloth. 83 x 64 cm. on cloth 98 x 92 cm. with sheets 16 x 23 cm. folded to 18 x 25 cm. 1:253,440.

"This map was drawn and printed in the field during the war, and is a copy of the one used by Maj. Gen. Sherman on the memorable march from Chatanooga to Atlanta. Presented to Mr. Kennaway by Wm. B. Graw, Col 16th U.S. CI, Com. of Post Chatanooga, Tn., Nov. 2, 1865."

 Map of routes of the Army of N. Virginia in Pennsylvania Campaign / made by order of Lt. Col. Wm Proctor Smith, Chief Engr. A.N.VA., by S. Howell Brown, 1st Lt. Eng. T. in charge Topl. Dept. A.N.VA., February 8, 1864. MS 1361-MP 318 1 map; color, pen-and-ink and crayon on paper mounted on cloth. 41 x 44cm. on sheet 42 x 46 cm. 1:316800.

The creator of the map, Samuel Howell Brown, was a Confederate topographical engineer assigned to the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia (CSA) under Jedediah Hotchkiss during the United States Civil War. He held rank of 1st Lt. and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox as a member of the Co. I, First Regiment, Confederate Engineers.

 Map of the battlefield of Chattanooga: prepared to accompany the report of Maj. Genl. U.S. Grant / by direction of Brigd. Genl. W. F. Smith Chief Engr. Milty. Div. Miss. 1864. Published by authority of the Secretary of War in the office of the Chief of Engrs. U.S.A. New York: The Graphic Company, 1875. MS 1361-MP 566 1 map; color coded. 73 x 66 cm. 1:56320. Map of the battlefield of Chickamauga, September 19th and 20th 1863 / compiled under the direction of Col. W.E. Merrill, chief eng'r. Dept. of the Cumberland by Edward Ruger, sup't. Top'l. Engineer Office D.C., redrawn by Louis Boedicker, top'l. draughtsman, 1867-1868, corrected and positions of troops located by Captain S.C. Kellogg, 5th Cavalry, 1889. New York: Julius Bien and Co., 1889. MS 1361-MP 565 1 map on 4 sheets; color, mounted on fabric. 56 x 92 cm., 56 x 68 cm, 56 x 77 cm., and 56 x 46 cm. 1:20,000. Map of the field of Shiloh near Pittsburgh Landing, Tenn.: shewing the postitions of the U.S. forces, under the command of Maj. Genl. U. S. Grant, U.S. vol. and Maj. Genl. D.C. Buell, U.S. vol on the 6th and 7th of April, 1862. Drawn by Otto H. Matz, Asst. Topl. Engr. New York: Julius Bien and Co., circa 1870 MS 1361-MP 569 1 map; color coded. 44 x 62 cm. on sheet 51 x 69 cm. 1:14400. Map of the vicinity of Hagerstown, Funkstown, Williamsport, and Falling Waters, Maryland: accompanying the report of Major General G.G. Meade, on the battle of Gettysburg dated October 1st 1863 / published by authority of the Hon. the Secretary of War, office of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1879. Washington, D.C.: United States Army, 1879. MS 1361-MP 562 1 map; color coded. 87 x 92 cm. 1:21120. Map to illustrate the operations of the Federal and Confederate armies in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee in the year 1862 / drawn and printed by Geo. W. Stadly and Co. Boston, MA: Geo. W. Stadly and Co., 1862. MS 1361-MP 563 1 map; color. 17 x 25 cm. on sheet 19 x 27 cm. 1:3,168,000. Plan and sections of Fort Fisher : carried by assault by the U.S. forces Maj. Gen. A. H. Terry, commanding, Jan. 13th, 1865. [S.I.]: Engineer Bureau, 1865. MS 1361-MP 560 1 map. 27 x 40 cm. on sheet 33 x 48 cm. 1:3,840. Region about Winchester showing operations against Gen. Banks May 1862, circa 1862. MS 1361-MP 564 1 map; color. 20 x 26 cm. on sheet 24 x 30 cm. 1:362,057. Savannah (Ga.) map made by Capt. O.M. Poe, Chief of Engineers, Sherman's Army Dec 1864 - Jan 1865, circa 1865. MS 1361-MP 409 1 map; photocopy. 45 x 56 cm. on sheet 46 x 65 cm. 1:31680. Seat of war : Manassas and its vicinity / engraved by J. Baumgarten. Virginia: [s.n.], 1861 MS 1361-MP 568 1 map; newspaper clipping. 30 x 27 cm. 1:330,000. Sketch of vicinity of Fort Fisher / surveyed under the direction of Brvt. Brig. Gen. C. B. Comstock chief engineer by Otto Julian Schultze private 15th n.y.v. eng. [S.I.]: Engineer Bureau, 1865. MS 1361-MP 561 1 map. 37 x 25 cm. on sheet 48 x 33 cm. 1:12,000. Southern Georgia and part of South Carolina / U.S. Coast Survey, A.D. Bache Supdt., 1865. MS 1361-MP 227 1 map on 32 sheets; hand colored, mounted on fabric. 62 x 89 cm folded to 12 x 16 cm. 1:633600. Series 13: Miscellaneous, 1730-1954, undated.

This series contains maps of Cherokee and other Indian territories, Northeastern United States locations, and railroads.

Contact the Georgia Historical Society Library for an inventory of maps in this series, or search the Georgia Historical Society's online catalog.